Quotes About Acceptance

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love.

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn't matter if you're going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open-- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.

The person you like the least is the person you need the most.

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

He sighed and shook his head slowly. 'And there will be no bringing back the light once it has gone.

whatever is done cannot be undone, but whatever is lost can sometimes be found.

All life is rooted in pain. There can be no escape, but love makes the hurt bearable.

That is what the boats and birds and children symbolized: creatures at rest within themselves and in harmony with their environment. Not fighting it, but accepting it, shaping it and being shaped by it to live in it and beyond it.

Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.

We are a society impatient with its misfits

You don't have to be good at something to be liked.

When you know love then that is the time you forget hate.

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.

Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs.

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.